The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 109
She went first to the young king, whom she beat with a hundred blows.
Who acts: enchantress · What happens: go, beat · To what, where: young king
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchantress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beat | punct |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 beat | obj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 beat | nsubj |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 king | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 blows | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hundred | det |
| 14 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 blows | nummod |
| 15 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beat | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | enchantress | to the young king; first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | beat | infinitive | enchantress | the young king | with hundred blows | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent whom=Patient with blow=Instrument |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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